People v. Siler

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Troy K. Webber, J.), rendered July 25, 2012, as amended August 22, 2012, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted rape in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly granted the People’s request for submission of attempted rape in the first degree as a lesser included offense of first-degree rape. There was ample evidence to sup port a reasonable view that defendant’s conduct only constituted an attempt (see…